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How do you pronounce the word "iron"?
eye-urn 95%  95%  [ 41 ]
eye-ron 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
eye-run 2%  2%  [ 1 ]
eye-uhn 2%  2%  [ 1 ]
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RangerDave
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Just curious.
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/ˈaɪən/

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You left out the Southern pronunciation, ahrn. (One syllable)

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Someone's pronuciation bugging you?

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Not bugging me, but my gf's first language is spanish, and I noticed this morning that she pronounces it halfway between "eye-ron" and "eye-run". Definitely not "eye-urn" the way I pronounce it.
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Vladimirr wrote:
You left out the Southern pronunciation, ahrn. (One syllable)


Ah, good point. Didn't think of that one.
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ī(-ə)rn. The other pronunciations hurt my mouth to even try to form.

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Khross wrote:
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Since Hopwin missed it the first time :P

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Eye-urn.
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Everyone says "eye-urn" except foreigners or maybe people with strange obscure dialects.
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Khross wrote:
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Since Hopwin missed it the first time :P

I don't speak Latvian ;)

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I picked eye-urn, but my pronunciation is maybe a bit closer to eye-orn.
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Now... how do you pronounce "irony"?

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Isn't it ironic that iron and irony have nothing to do with one another?

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What about an "irony taste"?
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Vladimirr wrote:
Now... how do you pronounce "irony"?


Indeed. That's halfway between eye-run-ee and eye-ron-ee for me.
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I say "ire-ny".
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My life for eye-ur(n)!

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I have Iron anyone have any wool or wood for trade?

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Oonagh wrote:
I have Iron anyone have any wool or wood for trade?


I have wood for you, Oonagh!


I pronounce 'iron' a a syllable and a half... EYErn. 'Irony' is not related in pronunciation. EYE ruh nee. I break syllables before the consonants for the most part. Not sure why.


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eye-urn.
It bugs me, because I'm certain it's a mispronunciation, but I think Reverend Lovejoy's is the only alternate pronunciation I've ever heard.

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For those of you who don't know the phonetic explanation I posted above, the word is pronounced in one and a half syllables with stress on the leading dipthong.

Ire + n (n as in name but with no following sound). This has to do with its Old English root: íren.

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Khross wrote:
For those of you who don't know the phonetic explanation I posted above, the word is pronounced in one and a half syllables with stress on the leading dipthong.

Ire + n (n as in name but with no following sound). This has to do with its Old English root: íren.

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Khross wrote:
For those of you who don't know the phonetic explanation I posted above, the word is pronounced in one and a half syllables with stress on the leading dipthong.

Ire + n (n as in name but with no following sound). This has to do with its Old English root: íren.


Just looked like a bunch of squares with an "a" and an "n" to me.

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